Bank of America Corporation (BAC) Presents at Bank of America 31st Annual Financials CEO Conference Transcript

Bank of America Corporation ( BAC ) Bank of America 31st Annual Financials CEO Conference September 23, 2026 8:15 AM EDT Company Participants James DeMare - Co-President Presentation Unknown Analyst Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being with us today. Jim DeMare will be with us today this afternoon. Thank you for coming to London. You're part of the -- you're Co-President of Bank of America, part of the member of the company executive management team. Well, thank you for the conference first. This is yours. James DeMare Co-President Great turn out. Thanks everybody for attending. Beautiful hotel. Unknown Analyst Great hotel, lots of clients, amazing corporates today with us. So thank you for that. Question-and-Answer Session Unknown Analyst Well, thank you, everyone. We'll go through a couple of questions, if that's okay. And if we have time at the end, we'll open for Q&A in the room. Let's start maybe with the macro backdrop. We have 70 million clients globally. We have a unique perspective on what customers do, businesses, investors. So what are you seeing from those clients today? And what is that telling you about the health of, of course, the U.S. economy, but also the global ones? James DeMare Co-President Sure. I think in addition to the maybe the level set because we have a lot of folks here that aren't in the U.S. and maybe don't have as much of a perspective on what our franchise. You mentioned a couple of the stats. We cover -- we have 46,000 banking clients broadly defined. We have 4.2 million clients that are -- which if we get the opportunity to talk about wealth, we'll talk about that a little bit more, but 4.2 million consumer investment customers, if you will, that are part of the bank, but also not only using our traditional banking, you think about it, but using us for their investing